MabusIncarnate

About Me

US Army Veteran, served 2000-2004 88M E-5. BCT at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and AIT at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. I was a big wheel truck driver and spent almost half of my term at Fort Dix, New Jersey hauling vehicles from NJ to a naval base in Florida.

Born in Staten Island, NY. Grew up in Metro Philadelphia and Ohio until I was stationed in New Jersey. Also lived in Atlanta, Georgia. I recently moved and currently reside in Tennessee. I have a 5 year old female Redbone Coon Hound, and a 6 year old fat, long haired black cat.

I am Head Admin for the paranormal and ufo discussion community for 12 years titled The Church Of Mabus, it includes forums and has evolved into a weekly radio broadcast. The radio broadcast averages 315,000 listeners weekly and airs on local New Orleans FM Radio and online. I am also primarily in charge of all graphic design work as i'm proficient in photoshop and desktop publishing.

I worked with an artist for Darkhorse Comics on his web page for 5 years, writing articles and video game reviews. I've been gaming since my Atari/Colecovision compound console in the early 80's and still going strong. I'm currently an avid Xbox 360 gamer and am on most nights.

Been a die hard Red Wings fan since 1993, all-time favorite player is unquestionably Steve Yzerman. I became a fan when living in Ohio as a kid before the Blue Jackets existed, as the Penguins had come off back to back cup wins I decided to root for the next team geographically closest to me which was Detroit.

I currently run a fantasy hockey and baseball league, both are head to head category daily dynasty leagues. I've been involved with multiple leagues with friends and we are now going into our 6th season.

I play in League Gaming, a competitive NHL 14 organized league that has thousands of members. I play RD on the Oshawa Generals and we are about to begin playoffs. I joined late in the season and finished with 13 points in 6 games played. I am shooting to be a GM next year and run my own team.

I want to see Monster in net against Toronto. Big, meaningful game, get in Howard's head a bit and start the backup. Send that message that faith is dwindling a bit and maybe he'll get back on his A game.

We seem to win more with Gus between the pipes, it's worth a shot at this point.

Kronwall has consistently been a bright spot in this dismal season, I can't count how many "bad games" he's had on one hand. He's human, even Lidstrom had the occasional bad game, burying him like this is a bit ridiculous right now.

The fact is had Smith not made contact with the player skating in the net would not have been dislodged and the puck still goes in for a goal. To me it appeared watching it last night that the contact was pretty minor and Smith made an attempt to move out of the way, but the net doesn't go anywhere if his momentum isn't driving the other player in that direction.

In the moment I was annoyed with it, thought the call was wrong, and I still don't agree with it 100% but I understand why it was called the way it was after watching the replay multiple times.

More importantly, it's done and over with, it's not getting overturned at this point and the call stands. Nothing changes that fact.

People are blaming Smith because it partially is his fault, but take him out of the equation, people are still pissed at Smith for not sticking to and covering his man as the goal is scored anyway. It's a lose lose situation for a defender. I'm more irritated with Howard's rebound control lately.

What about breaking up the vets line? I know we dont want to jinx the kid line but I think it's safe to say Nyquist will score wherever he plays and Sheahan and Tatar will work just as good with Alfie on the wing.

I would entertaining trying the top two lines like this

Franzen - Legwand - Nyquist

Tatar - Sheahan - Alfredsson

It's worth a shot, at least try it for a period and see how it goes. Split up the energy guys with some of the vets and see how they work together. It can't hurt.

I did not see any physical play from Callahan. i have read post after post how much he is grinder, tough on the puck. perhaps in the AHL but i did not see it tonight. in no way way shape or form am i contributing his lack of performance to tonight's loss, just an observation. Perhaps i was expecting more based on others postings on how good this kid may be.

If he was anticipated to meet expectations immediately upon call-up he would have been here much earlier.

He's young, he's developing, he isn't NHL ready. He came in just to fill in for injuries, it was his first ever NHL game and he was probably a nervous wreck. I don't expect anything out of him right now.